Hi! We are Lexie and Preston. Here is a little about us...
We’ve been married since April 29, 2022. We live in southwest Louisiana. Preston is a pipefitter, and Lexie is a support coordinator for a Medicaid program. We have one inside dog named Ace, who is 8 years old! We LOVE to travel, but we also really enjoy spending the majority of our time at home with one another.
Preston and I met in 2015 but did not start dating until 2020...in the heart of COVID. I was a school teacher at the time, so school was shut down. During that time, Preston sent me a DM on Facebook...the rest is history! We went through the entirety of COVID, 2 major hurricanes that we evacuated for, and the transition from all of our free time to our “normal” lives and schedules that we had before COVID, all within our first 5 months of dating. We said if we could survive all of that, we could survive anything! We officially started dating in May of 2020. In February 2021, the weekend after he and my dad had to come rescue me in an ice storm while I was in Nashville on a bachelorette trip, he proposed to me during a scheduled photography session by our friend. He also had all of my family waiting for us at my parents house with a “she said si” fiesta party! He was the man I had been waiting my whole life for! We have truly enjoyed every second of our marriage.
Even though our hearts have longed for a sweet baby, we have not let that stop us from living out our marriage to the fullest. I truly believe God has placed us in this season of waiting so that we can be the absolute best parents to the child we are blessed enough to call ours.
After struggling with infertility for the last (almost) 4 years, we decided to really start praying and intentionally asking God what our path to parenthood would look like for us. We felt the call to adoption. Preston’s brother and sister-in-law adopted all 4 of their children. Preston’s mom and step-dad also adopted their great nephew and have been raising him for the past 3 or so years (we were also asked to be his Godparents). Adoption was not something completely new to us. We were able to see first hand the beauty of adoption and what it looked like from the adoptive party’s point of view, as well as the child’s point of view. We truly felt a connection to adoption and became more confident in that decision the more we talked and prayed about it!
Our families are very involved in our lives, thankfully! We are so grateful for their unwavering support. They have been so supportive of our decision to adopt and have offered any and everything to help us along the way! Our baby will have the most loving and supportive village we could ask for.
To our birth mom: We want to say we have been fervently praying for you. You are truly one of the most selfless people we will ever know. We know we don’t know one another yet, but you will be giving us our greatest miracle, biggest blessing, and our answered prayer. We do not understand what it is like for you to make a decision like this. But we will never be able to thank you enough for trusting us with such an important role in your child’s life. Please know how much respect we have for you and the magnitude of your decision. Your child will grow up knowing how much they are loved by not only us, but you as well. You will always be a part of their story! Without you, this would not be possible and that will never be forgotten. So again, thank you. With everything we have, we thank you.
